I have an htaccess question. I wanted to make my URLs more user and
search engine friendly.

These were my old URLs:

http://www.example.com/book.php?title=bacon-essays&part=2

These should become my new URLs:

http://www.example.com/bacon-2.html

The following htaccess on my server root already works (I renamed
"book.php" into "show.php"):
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RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)-([0-9]*).html  show.php?title=$1&part=$2
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NOW, my problems, and your answer would be in fixing those or helping
me in those ways:

1) I included a permanenly moved header in my PHP for the "book.php",
as I now call it "show.php". However the header doesn't work. I asked
in newsgroups etc., so I don't think I can fix what seems to be a
misconfiguration of the Apache server. SO: How can I do this right
within the htaccess-file, the 301 permanent redirect of old URLs (e.g.
those indexed in search engines) to the new format as described above?
(Currently I achieve a 302, temporary move, which I believe is bad for
SEs.)

2.) Now while I was changing the URLs from old to new via htaccess, I
chose a method of "www.example.com/book/bacon-essays-2.html" (an
additional "book"). I just used this for one day or so but our big G.
already indexed this... and now I want to have a permanently moved 301
redirect via htaccess for this as well!


I believe a successful answer might consist of one or two lines,
unfortunately those have to be the right ones... but I'm willing to
try out different suggestions. Thanks from a fellow GAR who's getting
desperate!